We ran a test with some mock bumpers on and it had no difference in performance. The distance away from the hab shouldn’t matter because our robot will be pushing on it regardless (The rear pneumatic run faster than the front ones). We will be testing this more when we have full bumpers made.

The video was a tease/troll. That robot was an Army EOD robot that was visiting our STEM school that day. The Sergeant said it could climb stairs and I jokingly asked our team if they thought it could do a HAB3 climb. The Sergeant in charge said “what’s that?” Less than 10 minutes later we dragged our field elements out to the parking lot and slapped an extra set of Power Up numbers on their robot. The EOD operator had fun with the challenge and we all got a good laugh out of it. We also finished water jetting our transmission parts that day.

Parts ready? CHECK. HAB climb with $130k Army EOD robot? Check.
Needless to say it was a good day for our team.